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The imagebmp() function is an inbuilt function in PHP which is used to return the output or save a BMP version of the given image. Syntax:
bool imagebmp( resource $image, mixed $to, bool $compressed )
Parameters: This function accept three parameters as mentioned above and described below:
  • $image: It specifies the image to be converted.
  • $to (Optional): It specifies the path to save file to.
  • $compressed (Optional): It specifies whether BMP should be compressed with run-length encoding or not.
Return Value: This function returns TRUE on success. Exceptions: This function throws Exception on error. Below given programs illustrate the imagebmp() function in PHP: Program 1 (Creating a bmp image from scratch): php
<?php

// Create a blank image
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(120, 100);

// Add text in image
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 200, 240, 21);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 50,  'GeeksforGeeks', $text_color);

// Output that image as bmp
header("Content-Type: image/bmp");
imagebmp($im);
?>
Output: Program 2 (Converting a image into bmp): php
<?php

// Create a image from URL
$im = imagecreatefrompng(
'https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/geeksforgeeks-13.png');

// Output that image as bmp
header("Content-Type: image/bmp");
imagebmp($im);
?>
Output: Reference: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagebmp.php

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